Freedom Schools of Sunflower

Besides registering African Americans to vote as part of Freedom Summer in 1964, SNCC also created Freedom Schools in the Delta, which focused on black history, politics, and artistic achievement.The schools educated both children and adults.Moye reports in Let the People Decide that,”[S]chools [were] a means of consciousness-raising . . . An alternative school system could teach alternative values, which would be crucial to the creation of a movement culture”(125).

Sources:

Moye, J. Todd.Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York and London: Scribner, 2001.